Scott Hamilton Quotes
Scott Hamilton Quotes
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Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.
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Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect.
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And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.
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And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.
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But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.
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Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.
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Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage.
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From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.
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Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.
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I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know.
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I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have.
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I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.
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I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it.
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I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.
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I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.
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I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates.
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I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing.
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Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.
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Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.
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Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.
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What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.
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When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.
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